PB Healthcare, the healthcare arm of Policybazaar, is expanding its engineering team and is looking for Software Development Engineer I/II – Backend professionals with 2–4 years of experience. This is a strong opportunity for backend developers who want to build technology for a real-world healthcare ecosystem.
đź“Ś Job Overview
• Role: Software Development Engineer I/II – Backend
• Experience: 2–4 years
• Location: Gurugram, Haryana
• Focus: B2B & B2C healthcare platforms
• Domain: Digital healthcare, hospitals and patient-care technology
The role involves building scalable backend systems supporting patient journeys across appointments, healthcare services, digital records, hospital operations, insurance workflows and connected care.
🏢 About PB Healthcare & Policybazaar
PB Healthcare is being developed as an integrated, technology-enabled healthcare platform focused on making healthcare simpler, connected and patient-centric. Its vision includes digital appointments, paperless records, real-time updates, smart follow-ups and connected care beyond the hospital. PB Health describes its ecosystem as bringing hospitals, clinics, diagnostics and technology together around continuity of care. (PB Health)
Policybazaar is one of India’s best-known digital insurance platforms. Its healthcare initiative builds on the company’s experience helping consumers navigate insurance and aims to improve what happens when people actually need medical care. This gives engineers exposure to both consumer technology and healthcare infrastructure.
🌟 Why This Role Is Good for Your Experience
For a developer with 2–4 years of experience, this role can provide exposure to production-grade backend engineering. Working across B2C workflows and B2B integrations can strengthen skills in API design, databases, distributed systems, authentication, performance and reliability.
Healthcare also introduces engineering challenges where correctness and availability matter. You can gain experience with sensitive data, workflow consistency, multi-system integrations and customer-critical journeys—valuable foundations for SDE II, Senior Backend Engineer or platform-engineering roles.
đź’» Skills to Prepare
• Strong programming in Java, Python, Node.js or another backend language
• RESTful API development and microservices
• Data structures, algorithms, OOP and SOLID
• SQL, database design, indexing and query optimization
• NoSQL fundamentals such as MongoDB
• Caching, queues and asynchronous processing
• Authentication, authorization and secure API design
• Git, CI/CD, Docker/cloud fundamentals and production debugging
• System design, scalability and fault tolerance
The exact stack can vary by team, so prioritize technologies in the current JD and be ready to explain every technology on your resume.
🎯 Expected Interview Rounds at Policybazaar
Interview structures vary by team and level, so these are likely rather than guaranteed. Recent candidate-reported Policybazaar SDE experiences describe two technical rounds followed by managerial and HR rounds. Reported technical discussions have included DSA/coding, SQL indexes, OOP, scaling concepts and project-specific technologies. Other experiences mention CV screening, a phone discussion, virtual technical rounds and HR. Indeed currently rates the overall interview difficulty as medium, with many processes completing within about a week.
For this backend role, expect coding, backend fundamentals, databases, APIs and practical system-design thinking to be important.
đź’° Expected Salary Range
Policybazaar does not publish an official salary range for this specific vacancy. Public salary platforms show variation by level and experience. Levels.fyi reports median total compensation of about ₹16.4 lakh/year for Software Engineers at Policybazaar, while Glassdoor reports recent SDE II base-pay data around ₹20–22 lakh/year, with additional pay separately. Based on these benchmarks, a reasonable market expectation for a 2–4 year candidate could be approximately ₹12–22 LPA, depending on SDE I/SDE II level, current CTC, skills and negotiation. This is an estimate, not a guaranteed package.
🧠Preparation Tips
- Practice medium-level DSA: arrays, strings, hash maps, two pointers, sorting and trees.
- Build or revise a backend API project and explain architecture, database choices, authentication, errors and scaling.
- Revise SQL joins, indexes, normalization, transactions and query optimization.
- Design a healthcare appointment/hospital platform. Consider booking conflicts, notifications, patient records and insurance integrations.
- Understand caching, load balancing, queues, retries, idempotency and horizontal scaling.
- Prepare production scenarios involving API latency, database bottlenecks, duplicate requests and partial failures.
- Know your resume deeply and prepare measurable examples of bugs solved, performance improvements and technical decisions.
đź“„ Resume Tips for This Backend Role
Make your resume backend-focused. Highlight APIs built, transaction volume, latency improvements, database optimization, microservices, cloud deployment and business impact. Replace “Worked on REST APIs” with measurable statements such as “Optimized REST APIs, reducing average response time by X%.” Add relevant keywords: Backend Development, REST APIs, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, System Design, Scalability, Distributed Systems, CI/CD and Cloud. Keep projects relevant and ensure every technology listed can be discussed confidently.
đź“ť How to Apply
👉 Application Link: Click Here
Apply through the official Policybazaar Careers page and verify that the opening matches Software Development Engineer I/II (Backend), Gurugram. You can also learn more about the healthcare platform through PB Health. Policybazaar states that it does not ask candidates for money, bank details or financial information during recruitment. Never pay anyone for an interview, referral or offer.
